Heming Dempster (26 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st. First Edition, First Printing; no date given; (circa 1947); orange c w/black titles; owner's insc; 192 clean, unmarked pages. Frontis (illustrator).

Condition: Good. 1939. First Edition. 192 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over grey cloth boards with lettering. Black and white illustrated frontispiece. Prize plate stuck to half title page. Clean pages with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Lettering is bright and clear. Minor wear marks to boards. Clipped jacket. Panels and spine have light edgewear with tears and creases. Visible wear marks to spine and panels.…

Condition: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is aged toned. DJ with some edge wear, tears and loss. Old tape repairs. Clipped.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Boards a little worn, name to front endpaper. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Spence (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Good -. Front endpaper removed, spine sunned. Ex Boys scouts library copy. A reading copy.

Cloth. Condition: Good+. No Jacket. First Edition. Name in ink to back of front board, all corners bumped. 4th book in the series. Where possible small books will have postage reduced. J E B Knight (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 3rd Impression. Back panel of jacket has 2 tears sealed at back with archival tape, tiny fragmentary loss to tail of jacket. Prize plate to front endpaper. Heade (illustrator).

Cloth. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Corners soft, boards discoloured to edges. Book plate to front endpaper. A solid reading copy. Where possible small books will have postage reduced.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No dustwrapper, green cloth, some ink stains. Front hinge weak, text clean. Book.

First Edition. Very good copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Spine bands worn and panel edges somewhat rubbed and dust-toned as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall: tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 191 pages ; (8º). Subject; Fiction. 1 Kg.

First Edition. Very good copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Spine bands worn and panel edges somewhat rubbed and dust-toned as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall: tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 191 pages ; (8º). Subject; Fiction. 1 Kg.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. No Date. Hardback: frontispiece, deep blue cloth with black lettering on front & spine, some rubbing on spine, corners lightly bumped, presentation plate on flyleaf, a few internal spots, light foredge and internal foxing, paper browning, else vg, thick 8vo, 192pp. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. as pictured First American Edition Very good condition hard cover no dust jacket, spine fingernail indent, with vintage bookplate , some rubbing to spine ends, cover sketch with moon bright no rubbing gently read clean 271 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1938 first edition hardback in very good condition. Foxing to page edges and a little to inside cover. No other marks, clean and bright, tight binding. The green cloth boards have slight marking to spine, otherwise fine. No dust jacket. Items are dispatched the same or the following working day. Please note our excellent customer feedback.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. Hardback in d/w; undated but suspected 1st edition; orange board covers with black lettering to cover; a couple of bumped cover corners; no handwriting inside such as names; ; b/w frontis; contents nice and clean, with hint of tanning; d/w price clipped with fair amount of loss to spine and edges; vg-/fair; generally a nearly very good copy of a book written in the Peter Clayton Series under yet another pseudonym of Dorothy Eileen Marsh Heming.; Peter Clayton;; 4; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.…

Blue cloth hardcover. NO DUSTJACKET. 191p. Page edges foxed, front free endpaper missing.

Presumed 1st Edition. Hardback. Near good in tatty, with loss, and plastic protected, d/w. Boards bumped and discoloured, spine cocked, pages tanned and foxed, edge of pages marked, gatherings strained. Please email for exact postage quote and information on any available discounts (PLEASE NOTE: International Economy shipping is by sea and may take up to 90 days to arrive). …

1st edition chipped dust jacket Nice copy octavo 192pp., frontis., Prize label on front end paper dated 1943 o/w a nice copy in bright red boards in a nice, but chipped dust jacket with some loss. PHOTO available.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Original red cloth with illustration in black on front board, dark green endpapers. Spine a little darkened, spine ends nicked, signatures on prelims, good. 14 Indian "tall" stories, all but one reprinted from the Madras Mail. Several are crime stories. Published anonymously, but various sources suggest that the author was a Lieut. Col. Dempster Heming. The author produced a second collection of stories -- A Black Prince -- in 1893. Book. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Original green cloth with illustration in black on front board, dark green endpapers. Edges scuffed, small octagonal red label ("Day's Library") on front board, faint trace of removed labels on front endpapers, foxing spots, otherwise good. 14 Indian "tall" stories, all but one reprinted from the Madras Mail. Several are crime stories. Published anonymously, but various sources suggest that the author was a Lieut. Col. Dempster Heming. The author produced a second collection of stories -- A Black Prince -- in 1893. Book. …

1st Edition. Hardback. Near good in tatty, with loss, and plastic protected, d/w. Boards bumped and discoloured, spine cocked, pages foxed, edge of pages marked, gatherings strained. Please email for exact postage quote and information on any available discounts (PLEASE NOTE: International Economy shipping is by sea and may take up to 90 days to arrive).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition hard cover book in good condition. No dust jacket. Maroon cloth boards with bumps to head and foot of spine. Spotting to edges of text block. Foxing to front and rear endpapers with some foxing throughout. Gift inscription on front free endpaper. 12mo. 192pp.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 192 pp. Green cloth boards w. title printed in blk on cover & spine. Dust-wrapper w. colourful illustration to cover & spine. Spine chipped and a few small tears at top, piece missing at l-hand side of front cover. Price clipped. Grey endpapers, (l-hand endpaper missing from rear). B&W frontispiece. Lt foxing on last page. A Star Library title. Boys' adventure story.…

Hardcover. Condition: V. Good. 192 pp. Blue cloth boards, w. title printed in blk on cover & spine. Spine slightly bumped top & btm, otherwise good, sound condition. Dust-wrapper w. colour illus. on cover & spine. Jkt chipped and some small tears, (tear at btm of spine 3/4"), but basically complete. List of publisher's titles on rear. Price clipped. Edges foxed. Grey endpapers. Ink inscription on front endpaper. Some foxing on first and rear pages. Frontispiece. List of contents. Gutter slightly split in some places. The further adventures of Peter Clayton, Midshipman on HMS Mollusc. Good, clear print. Children's fiction. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. First Edition. Hardback in d/w; 1st editions; blue/grey board covers with black lettering to cover; maroon end papers with an award inscription hand written on fep (not author) ; b/w nfrontis; contents nice and clean; d/w has a few small mends to nicks at edges on underside & is price clipped; vg/vg-; generally an attractive copy of a book written in the Peter Clayton Series under yet another pseudonym of Dorothy Eileen Marsh Heming.; Peter Clayton; Star Library;; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.…

Octavo, pp. [1-8] [1] 2-271 [272: printer's imprint], original pictorial brown cloth, front panel stamped in black and silver, spine panel stamped in gold, slate coated endpapers, all edges untrimmed. First edition. Heming's anonymously published first collection of short fiction, mostly adventure and humorous stories, all set in colonial India, mostly reprinted from the MADRAS MAIL. Teitler and Locke, By the World Forgot (2013) 47. Hubin (1994), p. 26. Wolff 7584. Gupta, India in English Fiction 306 (as by Bowlong). Cloth lightly worn at edges, dust soiled and spotted, slight spine lean, a sound, good copy. (#170244).…